Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] the kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the club has avoided the kind of foul-up that ruined this year 's Grand National steeplechase because of primitive starting procedures supervised by another archaic British body , the Jockey Club . |
| 2 | First , it checks that the salesperson has understood the kinds of benefits the buyer is looking for . |
| 3 | He does not deny that some scientists and engineers in British industry are doing world-class research — the signal and image processing work at British Telecom 's labs is an example , says Sir Eric — but he would argue that there are no world-class labs as such in the UK , nowhere that has attained the kind of critical mass in R&D that Bell Labs has in the US or Hitachi and NEC in Japan . |
| 4 | It is only occasionally , as in the case of Fowles or Durrell , for example , that postmodernism has generated the kind of respect and popularity enjoyed by authors such as Thomas Pynchon , Italo Calvino and Gabriel García Márquez . |
| 5 | This chapter has identified the kinds of problem areas leading to errors in the handwriting recognition system . |
| 6 | Much of this has been financed by Kuwaiti money and has created the kind of visual damage to the city centre the Germans inflicted during the war . |
| 7 | He 's got the kind of seriousness which he admires , and a certain way of leaning forward as he shows Howard round , as if he is eager to understand the world but finds it rather difficult . |
| 8 | He 's always had his heart in , in diplomacy and he 's got the kind of authority you need for this . |